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Film Review: ‘Barbenheimer’ Delivers a Beautifully Existential Double Feature
While I wouldn’t say that overlapping interests are mandatory for a successful long-term relationship, they don’t hurt either. An early sign that my wife and I were going to be a good match was the discovery that she is every bit as crazy as I am when it comes to watching what many would consider […] More
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Film Review: ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Embarks on a Hilarious Fantasy Adventure
If you throw a rock in any American cinema, you’ll probably hit somebody and be forced to leave. But if you were to throw one in such a way that it only landed on the films that are playing there (for the purpose of this already-tortured metaphor), then odds are good it would land on […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Yet Another 31 Days of Halloween
Longtime readers and/or listeners of the Awards Radar podcast will likely know that the spooky season is my absolute favorite time of the year. Even though I’ve been too old for trick-or-treating for a long while now, and am probably too old for most adult-oriented costume parties at this point, that doesn’t stop me from […] More
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Film Review: ‘Alienoid’ is a Sci-Fi/Martial Arts Hybrid with Plenty of Spectacle
After almost two years where the theatrical experience felt more endangered than ever before, this past summer movie season has certainly gone a long way to reinvigorate faith that the act of witnessing exciting spectacle on the big screen was far from done with. After tentpole releases like Dune and especially Spider-Man: No Way Home […] More
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Film Review: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ is a Heart-Warming, Mind-Bending Trip Through the Multiverse
The title Everything Everywhere All at Once is both accurate and misleading. It’s true that in the latest film by the duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as Daniels (who previously offered surreal delights with their feature debut, Swiss Army Man) the audience will spend much of the runtime feeling like the protagonist does: overwhelmed […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Villains We Might See in ‘The Batman’ Sequel
(*SPOILERS for The Batman*) After years of anticipation, from Ben Affleck’s original treatment to Matt Reeves’ final vision, The Batman is finally here. Effective as both a standalone story and as the setup to an entire Bat-verse, the new film is as much detective noir as it is superhero saga. That said, Batman is one […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Six Horror Films That Influenced ‘The Batman’
Director Matt Reeves’ latest depiction of the world’s broodiest superhero isn’t shy about its cinematic influences. Over the course of The Batman, one can easily identify through-lines adopted from similar tales of conspiracy and corruption like Chinatown and All the President’s Men, as well as gritty thrillers like Klute and Taxi Driver. This is to […] More
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Film Review: ‘A Banquet’ Depicts a Family with No Appetite for Horror
There are few times in someone’s life where they feel the kind of overwhelming uncertainty that is present in late adolescence. In what can seem like no time at all, they’ve grown from a child with minimal responsibilities to being on the cusp of adulthood. There is enormous societal pressure at this point for them […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Another 31 Days of Halloween
Last year, I made the slightly insane decision to commit to the #31DaysofHalloween challenge, along with my girlfriend Kelly. This has been going around for a few years now, and the gist of it is that you watch a different horror or horror-adjacent movie every day of October. Though we had to cheat and double-up […] More
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Sunday Scaries: The Terrifying Prophecy of ‘American Psycho’
The year is 1987. The greed and excess of this particular decade in American culture has reached a fever pitch. Oliver Stone’s Wall Street is released this year, giving mainstream audiences a proper glimpse into the madness that transpires behind the scenes with the men who manipulate finances to their own lucrative ends. A generation […] More
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Sunday Scaries: How ‘Slither’ Sowed the Seeds of James Gunn’s Filmography
If you saw James Gunn’s Slither during its initial theatrical run in 2006, as I did, you may well have been thoroughly entertained, as I was, but you’d also be forgiven for not immediately deducing that in 15 short years, this director would be one of the most accomplished and venerated genre filmmakers in the […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Five Years Later, ‘Don’t Breathe’ is Finally Getting the Sequel It Deserves
Back in 2012, when Uruguayan filmmaker Fede Alvarez was hired to direct a remake of Sam Raimi’s iconic The Evil Dead, expectations weren’t exactly through the roof. For every inspired horror remake like John Carpenter’s The Thing or David Cronenberg’s The Fly, there have been dozens of pale, soulless imitations of classics that simply go […] More
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